Chapter 17: Arab/Muslim Attitudes Toward Israel

The desire for peaceful relations
between Jews and Arabs sometimes leads people to
overlook public comments by Arab officials and media
publications that are often incendiary and sometimes
outright anti-Semitic. Frequently, more
moderate tones are adopted when speaking to Western
audiences, but more accurate and heartfelt views
are expressed in Arabic to the speaker’s constituents.

The following is just a tiny sample of some of the
remarks that have been made regarding Israel and
the Jews. They are included here because they demonstrate
the level of hostility and true beliefs of many Arabs
and Muslims. Of course, not all Arabs and
Muslims subscribe to these views, but the examples
are not random, they are beliefs held by important
officials and disseminated by major media. They are
also included because one of the lessons of the Holocaust was
that people of good will are often unwilling to believe
that people who threaten evil will in fact carry
out their malevolent intentions.

Anti-Semitism

“They [Jews] tried to kill the principals of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”

— Syrian President Bashar Assad, during the visit to Syria of Pope John Paul II New York Post, May 6, 2001

“The Jewish nation,
it is known, from the dawn of history, from the time
Allah created them, lives by scheme and deceit.”

“We know that the Jews have
manipulated the Sept. 11 incidents and turned American
public opinion against Arabs and Muslims....We still
ask ourselves: Who has benefited from Sept. 11 attacks?
I think they (the Jews) were the protagonists of
such attacks.”

“They succeeded in gaining
control in most of the [world’s] most powerful states,
and they — a tiny community — became
a world power. But 1.3 billion Muslims must not be
defeated by a few million Jews. A way must be found....The
Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million,
but today the Jews are in control of the world via
their proxies. They lead others to fight and die
for them....If we are weak, no one will support us.
The Israelis respect only the strong, and we must
therefore all unite.”

— Malaysian Prime Minister
Mahatir Mohammad
at the opening of the Organization of Islamic States
summit
October 16, 2003

“The
Prophet said: the Jews will hide behind the rock
and tree, and the rock and tree will say: oh servant
of Allah, oh Muslim this is a Jew behind me, come
and kill him! Why is there this malice? Because
there are none who love the Jews on the face of the
earth: not man, not rock, and not tree; everything
hates them. They destroy everything, they destroy
the trees and destroy the houses. Everything wants
vengeance on the Jews, on these pigs on the face
of the earth, and the day of our victory, Allah willing,
will come.”

“If we searched
the entire world for a person, more cowardly,
despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind,
ideology and religion, we would not find
anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say
the Israeli.”

“Jews subscribe to a belief in racial superiority...Their religion even teaches them to call down curses upon the worship places on non-Jews whenever they pass by them! They arrogantly refer to anyone who is not Jewish as ‘gentiles,’ equating them with sin. ”

“After telling the governor lies about Jesus and making him think that Prophet Jesus was starting a rebeliion against Rome, the Jews were finally able to get an order for his execution. The Koran states that the Jews did not kill Jesus nor did they crucify him. Allah states, however, that the Hews thought they did it.”

“The reasons for Jewish hostility toward the Muslims of 7th century Medina lies in their general characteristics described in the Koran.” Example: “You will find the most implacable of men in their enmity to the faithful are the Jews and the pagans.”

“Their famous book, the existence of which is denied by the reasonable people among them, the so called Protocols of the Elders of Zion - but we call it the Protocols of the Idiots of Zion... In this book, the Jews included their plan to besiege the whole world by land, by air, by sea, by ideology, by economy, and by the media, as is happening today, my brothers in the nation of the Prophet Muhammad. The Jews today are weaving their spider webs in order to encircle our nation like a bracelet encircles the wrist, and in order to spread corruption throughout the world. ”

—Hamas Friday Sermon
Al-Aqsa TV, April 3, 2009

“The loathsome occupation in Palestine - its land and its holy places - by these new Mongols and what they are perpetrating upon this holy, blessed and pure land - killing, assassination, destruction, confiscation, Judaization, harassment and splitting the homeland - are clear proof of [unintelligible word - Ed.] hostility, of incomparable racism, and of Nazism of the 20th century. The Jews, the enemies of Allah and of His Messenger, the enemies of Allah and of His Messenger! Enemies of humanity in general, and of Palestinians in particular...”

—PA TV Sermon
PA TV (Fatah), January 29, 2010

Blood Libel

“The Talmud says that if a
Jew does not drink every year the blood of a non-Jewish
man, he will be damned for eternity.”

“During this holiday [Purim],
the Jew must prepare very special pastries, the filling
of which is not only costly and rare –– it
cannot be found at all on the local and international
markets....For this holiday, the Jewish people must
obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare
the holiday pastries....Before I go into the details,
I would like to clarify that the Jews’ spilling human
blood to prepare pastry for their holidays is a well-established
fact, historically and legally, all throughout history.
This was one of the main reasons for the persecution
and exile that were their lot in Europe and Asia
at various times....during the holiday, the Jews
wear carnival-style masks and costumes and overindulge
in drinking alcohol, prostitution, and adultery.....”

— Dr. Umayma Ahmad Al-Jalahma
of King Faysal University
Saudi government daily Al-Riyadh, March 10,
2002

“Christian Europe showed enmity
toward the Jews when it transpired that their rabbis
craftily hunt anyone walking alone, [tempting] him
to enter their house of worship. Then they take his
blood to use for baked goods for their holidays,
as part of their ritual.”

“Khomeini did not regard the opposition to the Zionist regime, and the support for the rights of the Palestinian people, as [duties that are relevant] only for a certain time... Israel is ready to collapse owing to internal problems, and over the past 60 years it has not managed to establish its legitimacy... Israel has managed -- by means of violence, force, intimidation, satanic plots and widespread propoganda -- to impose itself upon the region and to create a myth that the Zionist regime is invincible. But today, the Islamic resistance [Hamas, Hizbullah and Islamic Jihad] has shattered this false myth... As Khomeini said, if every Muslim pours a bucket of water over Israel, it will be washed away.”

“Like the great Iranian nation, the [other] Muslim peoples now regard Israel as a false regime that has been imposed [on the region]. Unfortunately, however, the Arab governments do not join their peoples’ demand [for change in the region].

“The Zionist regime has no power, and is incapable of standing on its own. It is the shameless and unconditional support of the U.S., and the failure of the Islamic and Arab countries to support the Palestinians, that is preventing changes from taking place in the region... Unfortunately, many Islamic governments have failed their duty toward the Palestinian people. Had they adopted the stance of their peoples and supported the oppressed people of Palestine, the situation in the region would have been totally different... Commitment to Islamic principles, struggle against cruelty and arrogance [i.e. the U.S.], defense of oppressed nations -- in particular the Palestinians -- and enmity toward the Zionist octupus are among the [chief] mottos of the Iranian people.”

“Unless
the Palestine problem is settled, we shall
have difficulty in protecting and safeguarding
the Jews in the Arab world.”

— Syrian delegate, Faris el-Khouri,New York Times, February 19, 1947

“The Arab world is not in a
compromising mood. It’s likely, Mr. Horowitz, that
your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of
nations is not decided by rational logic. Nations
never concede; they fight. You won’t get anything
by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps,
get something, but only by the force of your arms.
We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we’ll succeed,
but we’ll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the
other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that
we shall lose Palestine. But it’s too late to talk
of peaceful solutions.”

— Arab League Secretary Azzam
Pasha,
September 16, 1947

“[A]ll our
efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Palestine
problem have failed. The only way left for us is
war. I will have the pleasure and honor to save Palestine.”

— Transjordan’s King Abdullah,
April 26, 1948

“The representative of the
Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not
the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting.
We did not deny this. We told the whole world that
we were going to fight.”

— Jamal Husseini before the
Security Council,
April 16, 1948

It will be a war of annihilation. It will be a momentous massacre in history that will be talked about like the massacres of the Mongols or the Crusades.

 Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League,
October 11, 1947

“I am not solely fighting against
Israel itself. My task is to deliver the Arab world
from destruction through Israel’s intrigue, which
has its roots abroad. Our hatred is very strong.
There is no sense in talking about peace with Israel.
There is not even the smallest place for negotiations.”

— Egyptian
President Nasser,
October 14, 1956

“Our forces are now entirely
ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to
initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode
the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian
army, with its finger on the trigger, is united....I,
as a military man, believe that the time has come
to enter into a battle of annihilation.”

— Syrian Defense Minister Hafez
Assad,
May 20, 1967

“Arab policy at this stage
has but two objectives. The first, the elimination
of the traces of the 1967 aggression through an Israeli
withdrawal from all the territories it occupied that
year. The second objective is the elimination of
the traces of the 1948 aggression, by the means of
the elimination of the State of Israel itself. This
is, however, as yet an abstract, undefined objective,
and some of us have erred in commencing the latter
step before the former.”

— Mohammed Heikal, a Sadat
confidant and editor of the semi-official Al-Ahram,
February 25, 1971

“The Arab armies entered Palestine
to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny
but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to
emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them
into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the
Jews used to live.”

— Palestinians marching in
support of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait,
Associated
Press, August 12, 1990

“We
will not arrest the sons of our people in order to
appease Israel. Let our people rest assured that
this won’t happen.”

— Chief of the PA Preventive
Security in the West Bank, Jebril Rajoub,
Islamic Association for Palestine, June 9, 2001

“...Allah willing, this unjust
state...Israel will be erased; this unjust state,
the United States will be erased; this unjust state,
Britain will be erased...Blessings to whoever waged
Jihad for the sake of Allah...Blessings to whoever
put a belt of explosives on his body or on his sons’
and plunged into the midst of the Jews...”

“Didn’t
we throw mud in the face of Bill Clinton, who dared
to propose a state with some adjustments? Were we
honest about what we did? Were we right in what we
did? No, we were not. After two years of violence,
we are now calling for what we rejected.”

— Nabil Amr, ex-minister in
the PA cabinet,
Quoted in the Jerusalem Report, October 21,
2002

“Just as
Ramallah, Gaza, Nablus, and Jenin are Palestinian
cities, so are Haifa, Nazareth, Jaffa, Ramle, Lod,
Beersheba, Safed, and others Palestinian cities....The
Zionist Jews are foreigners in this land. They have
no right to live or settle in it. They should go
somewhere else in the world to establish their state
and their false entity...They must leave their homes...We
do not believe in so-called ’peace with Israel’ because
peace cannot be made with Satan. Israel is the greatest
Satan.”

“Hamas will keep its weapons
in its hands and will defend any part of the homeland....Our
national problem is not related only to the West
Bank, Gaza, and al-Quds...but to Palestine, all [the
territory of] Palestine.”

—Hamas leader Mahmoud
al-ZaharAl-Hayat
Al-Jadidah,
July, 5, 2005

“Oh
Allah, liberate our Al-Aksa Mosque from the defilement
of the occupying and brutal Zionists… Oh Allah,
punish the occupying Zionists and their supporters
from among the corrupt infidels. Oh Allah, scatter
and disperse them, and make an example of them for
those who take heed.”

“Al-Qassam warriors, rain rockets
on the settlers! Don’t let any Jew sleep!
The Al-Aksa Brigades will make you tremble in Haifa
and Tel Aviv; they will strike you in Safed and Acre.
Because we do not distinguish between [Jewish] Palestine
and [Arab] Palestine.
For [as] Jaffa is the same as Gaza, Tel-al-Zuhour [Tel
Aviv] is the same as Rafah, and the Galilee is the
same as Hebron.
We make no distinction between the parts of the earth
of the homeland.”

— Song broadcast on Hamas radio
station Sawt Al-Aksa
August 16, 2005

“We will continue our martyrdom
operations inside Israel until all our lands are
liberated, by God’s will....We won’t lay down our
weapons as long as Jerusalem and the West Bank are
under occupation.”

“We
will not rest and will not abandon the path of Jihad
and martyrdom as long as one inch of our land remained
in the hands of the Jews.”

—Raed Saed, a senior
Hamas leaderYnet
News,
September 19, 2005

“First of all this Palestinian
land, and all the Arabic nation, is all part of the
same area. In the past, there was no independent
Palestinian state; there was no independent Jordanian
state; and so on. There were regions called Iraq
or Egypt, but they were all part of one country....Our
main goal is to establish a great Islamic state,
be it pan-Arabic or pan-Islamic.”

— Mahmoud
al-Zahhar, Hamas leader
The Media Line, September 22, 2005

“I tell you with all
honesty, we will not recognize Israel, we
will not recognize Israel, we will not recognize
Israel.”

“Israel is a vile
entity that has been planted in our soil,
and has no historical, religious or cultural
legitimacy. We cannot normalize our relations
with this entity. The history of this region
has proven [time and again] that occupation
is temporary. Thousands of years ago, the
Romans occupied this land and [eventually]
left. The Persians, Crusaders, and English
[also] came and went. The Zionists have come,
and they too will leave. [We say] no to recognizing
Israel, regardless of the price we may have
to pay [for our refusal].”

“This is our plan for this stage - to liberate the West Bank and Gaza, without recognizing Israel's right to a single inch of land, and without giving up the Right of Return for a single Palestinian refugee. ” [...] “Our plan for this stage is to liberate any inch of Palestinian land, and to establish a state on it. Our ultimate plan is [to have] Palestine in its entirety. I say this loud and clear so that nobody will accuse me of employing political tactics. We will not recognize the Israeli enemy.”

“We have one enemy. All our arrows and all our efforts should be aimed in a single direction – to conduct resistance against the settlement and the occupation, and to repel the Israeli injustice done to our people.”

“There is no doubt that Israel was collapsing and would not last much longer. The resistance [forces] of the Palestinian people and other anti-Zionist [forces] will not about quickly finish the task and crush Israel’s spider-like regime, so that [Israel’s] 60th anniversary celebrations will become a prelude to its demise.”

— Editorial in Jomhouri-ye Eslami (Iran), May 11, 2008

“I think that anyone who follows the [developments] in the world comes to the conclusion that this (i.e., the elimination of Israel) will occur with or without Iran’s intervention... It will be to Europe’s advantage, since Europe is forced to pay for some of the Zionists’ crimes... The very existence of the false Zionist regime has caused Europe great harm... The Europeans are bearing the political and economic burden of this regime... The day will come when the Muslims uproot [it]. We realize that the European governments do not want the Zionists living in Europe, but they should not foist them on the Palestinians.

“Our position against the Zionist regime is to the benefit of all nations, because this regime is a shameful stain on the body of mankind, and its crimes in Palestine are a disgrace to humanity at large. That is why we want to put an end to the [Zionists’] crimes. Today, after 60 years, the time had come to open up the black box of the Zionist regime's crimes and expose the facts...

“What is the secret of this false refime which [gives it] such immunity, and [enables it to receive] support despite all its crimes and violations of human rights and of people’s dignity? [We] must figure out what is the mission of the Zionist regime, which prompts certain European countries to support it so absolutely, and what is the mystery behind the false Zionist regime, [which causes] all truths to be sacrificed for its sake... The European nations, as peace-loving and sincere nations [that have been] victims of war, oppose the crimes of the Zionist regime.”

“Know that the criminal and terrorist Zionist regime -- which as years of plundering, aggression and crime to its name -- has come to the end of its road and will soon be wiped off the map of the world...Our beloved Imam [the late Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini]... the Zionist regime has lost its raison d’etre. Today, the Palestinians identify with your name, your memory, and your path. They are walking in your illuminated path, [while] the Zionist regime has reached a total dead end. With God’s grace, your wish will soon be realized, and this germ of corruption will be wiped off the face of the world.”

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
Conference marking the 19th anniversary
of the death of Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini,
IRNA (Iran) and IRINN (Iran), June 3, 2008

“Israel’s days are numbered.”
“The people of the region would not miss the narrowest opportunity to annihilate this false regime.”
“The nations of the region despise this false and criminal regime.”

“Today, certain people are about to convene in occupied Palestine in order to celebrate its anniversary. They believe that, by doing so, they are strengthening this disintegrating regime. However, the whole world will come to understand that holding these ceremonies is a sign of the weakness, backwardness, and disintegration of this regime. Otherwise, why didn’t they celebrate this regime’s 50th or 55th anniversary? Why did they come up this idea [only] now? Let me tell you, celebrating a dead man’s birthday wont improve his condition one bit. This dead man will not be resurrected by all those people who are about to convene there... [The Zionists] are a group of terrorists ans criminals who came [to Israel] according to a plan, with the support of foreigners, and who have no roots in Palestine. Sooner or later, they will be driven out by the people of Palestine... From the point of view of the nations in the region, the Zionist regime does not even exist... The era of Zionist writings, Zionist bullying policies and the Zionist political mechanism has come to an end.”

“The [very] basis for the existence of the Zionist regime is in question. This oppressive and false regime is about to fade and collapse... Those who think that they can revive this stinking corpse by celebrating its anniversary are totally wrong. The [leaders] who attend these celebrations should know that they will go down [in history as accomplices] of the Zionist criminals... Having received a slap in the face from the Lebanese people, this regime is now coming to its end like a dead fish... If countries in the region continue to [support] Israel they will be bruned by the wrath of the nations.”

“The goal of the current intifada is a Palestinian state, but afterwards, there will be even greater things for which to strive. There is no room for more than one state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.”

— Marwan Bargouti, Tanzim leader,
interview with the New Yorker in 2001

“I want to say
that this is our Palestine, from Metulla [Israel’s
northernmost city] to Rafiah [Southern border] and
to Aqaba [Israel’s southernmost point], from the
[Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea; whether
they want it or not.”

“If
we agree to declare our state over what is now 22
percent of Palestine, meaning the West Bank and Gaza,
our ultimate goal is the liberation of all historic
Palestine from the River to the Sea...We distinguish
the strategic, long-term goals from the political
phased goals, which we are compelled to temporarily
accept due to international pressure.”

— Faisal al-Husseini,Al-Arabi, June 24, 2001

“Israel
is much smaller than Iran in land mass, and therefore
far more vulnerable to nuclear attack.”

— Former Iranian President
Ali Rafsanjani,
quoted in Jerusalem Report, March 11, 2002

“We
defeated the Crusaders 800 years ago and we will
defeat the enemies of Islam today.”

“...we shall return to the
1967 borders, but it does not mean that we have given
up on Jerusalem and Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramla, Nayanyah
[Al-Zuhour] and Tel Aviv [Tel Al-Rabia]. Never. We
shall return to every village we had been expelled
from, by Allah’s will....Our approval to return to
the 1967 borders is not a concession for our other
rights. No!..this generation might not achieve this
stage, but generations will come, and the land of
Palestine...will demand that the Palestinians return
the way Muhammad returned there, as a conqueror.”

— Sheikh Ibrahim Mudyris,
Friday sermon, February 4, 2005

“Hamas would ‘definitely not’ be
prepared for coexistence with Israel should the IDF
retreat to its 1967 borders. It can be a temporary
solution, for a maximum of 5 to 10 years. But in
the end Palestine must return to become Muslim, and
in the long term Israel will disappear from the face
of the earth.”

— Hamas
leader Mahmoud al-ZaharYediot Aharonot, June 24, 2005

“Palestine
means Palestine in its entirety - from
the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan]
River, from Ras Al-Naqura to Rafah. We
cannot give up a single inch of it. Therefore,
we will not recognize the Israeli enemy's
[right] to a single inch.”

“Hamas is clear on
this matter. Hamas believes that historical
Palestine, that is, all of Palestine, belongs
to the Palestinian people...We say that all
of Palestine, from the (Jordan) River to
the (Mediterranean) Sea, belongs to the Palestinians.
They have a legitimate right to this land...We
use one voice in all forums. But we also
say that we are dealing realistically with
the current phase — an independent
Palestinian state with full sovereignty over
the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
That is what we presented to our people in
our elections platform...Yes, it is a temporary
and phased solution. This is not a permanent
solution.”

“We [aim to liberate]
all our lands... If we have the option, we
will establish a state on every inch of land
within the 1967 [borders], but this does
not by any means imply that we will relinquish
our right to all the Palestinian lands. We
want all of Palestine from [Ras] Naqura to
Rafah, and from the [Mediterranean] sea to
the [Jordan] river.”

— PA Foreign
Minister Mahmoud ZaharAl-Ayyam (PA), October 21, 2006

“This is not a country
of humans. These are animals and a group
of gangs, and this country must be wiped
off the face of the earth.”

— PA spokesman
Ghazi HamadYnet,
November 22, 2006

“The
generation that is fighting the Zionists
today and that started the first and
second intifadas is a young, highly motivated
generation. This is the generation that
will free Palestine.”

“...from
now on the Palestinian factions must
be united in resistance and belief in
God. They must prepare the ground for
the removal of the Zionists from the
holy land of Palestine until not a single
piece is occupied.”

“The
Palestinian woman bids her son farewell,
and says to him: "Son, go and don't be
a coward. Go, and fight the Jews." He bids
her farewell and carries out a martyrdom
operation. What did this Palestinian woman
say when she was asked for her opinion,
after the martyrdom of her son? She said: "My
son is my own flesh and blood. I love my
son, but my love for Allah and His Messenger
is greater than my love for my son." Yes,
this is the message of the Palestinian
woman, who was over seventy years old – Fatima
Al-Najjar. She was over seventy years old,
but she blew herself up for the sake of
Allah, bringing down many criminal Zionists.”

“In
light of the weakness of the Arab nation
and the lack of values, and in light of
the American control over the world, the
PLO proceeds through phases, without changing
its strategy. Let me tell you, when the
ideology of Israel collapses, and we take,
at least, Jerusalem, the Israeli ideology
will collapse in its entirety, and we will
begin to progress with our own ideology,
Allah willing, and drive them out of all
of Palestine.”

“In
light of the weakness of the Arab nation
and the lack of values, and in light of
the American control over the world, the
PLO proceeds through phases, without changing
its strategy. Let me tell you, when the
ideology of Israel collapses, and we take,
at least, Jerusalem, the Israeli ideology
will collapse in its entirety, and we will
begin to progress with our own ideology,
Allah willing, and drive them out of all
of Palestine.”

“Our goal is to liberate all of Palestine, from the river to the sea, from Rosh Hanikra to Umm Al-Rashrash [Eilat]. From Gaza, gentlemen... We do not want a state 364 square kilometers in size, nor do we want a state for which we had to beg at the negotiating table. Such a state will never come to be. What we want is a free state, which maintains its dignity, 27,000 square kilometers in size - the size of Palestine in its entirety.”

“Allah willing, th emoment will come when their property will be destroyed and their sons annihilated, until not a single Jew or Zionist is left on the face of the Earth.”

—Hamas Friday Sermon
Al-Aqsa TV, April 3, 2009

Sanctioning Violence

"[The] gun is our only response to Zionist regime [sic]. In time, we have come to understand that we can obtain our goals only through fighting and armed resistance and no compromise should be made with the enemy ... [the] path of resistance continues and if we make any compromise, it is for resistance and obtaining Palestinians' rights."

“...nobody should
agree to Israeli settlers remaining in the
Palestinian [state].”

— Saeb Erakat,
chief Palestinian negotiatorAl-Dustour,
June 25, 2009

“[Some ask]
where the negotiations with the Israeli side
have brought us. First [the Israelis] said
we would [only have the right to] run our
own schools and hospitals. Then they consented
to give us 66% [of the occupied territories].
At Camp David they offered 90%, and [recently]
they offered 100%. So why should we hurry,
after the all the injustice we have suffered?
The agreement will not be stable anyway,
unless it is based on international law and
on justice.”

— Saeb Erakat,
chief Palestinian negotiatorAl-Dustour,
June 25, 2009

“I say on behalf of the Association of Islamic Scholars: The truce with the Zionist entity is meaningless. The solution is to renew the resistance in a stronger and more effective way. Let pure bodies blow up again in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and in all the cities of occupied Palestine, because this enemy understands nothing but the language of force... To the courageous Egyptian people we say: Arise and bring down the artificial border, and bring food and medicine to your besieged brothers in Gaza. The Egyptian people is required to show an act of violence, even if they go to jail, even if they die - they will be martyrs for the sake of Allah.”

“Oh noble Gaza, raise your head high. You have made the Muslims raise their heads high. And you, people of Hebron - you are now waging a war against the Jews. You are well-versed in this. We saw how, on a day in 1929, you slaughtered the Jews in Hebron. Today, slaughter them on the land of Hebron. Kill them in Palestine. Arise, oh people of Palestine, all the people of Palestine - arise in defense of your Al-Aqsa Mosque, arise in defense of Nablus and Hebron. Arise and face the [PA] Preventive Security forces. Fear them not, for they are rabbits. They are wolves, so fear them not, oh lions.”

“Oh warrior brothers,
this is a nation that will never be broken,
it is a revolution that will never be defeated.
This is a nation that gives an example every
day that is imitated across the world. We
gave the world the children of the RPG [Rocket
Propelled Grenades], we gave the world the
children stone [-throwers], and we gave the
world the male and female Martyrdom-Seekers
[suicide bombers].”

“There is no doubt that
the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe
off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic
world....Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn
in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury (while)
any (Islamic leader) who recognizes the Zionist
regime means he is acknowledging the surrender
and defeat of the Islamic world....As the Imam
[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] said, Israel must
be wiped off the map.”

—Speech by Mahmoud
AhmadinejadAssociated
Press , October 26,
2005

“The
jihad and suicide bombings will continue — the
Zionist entity will reach its end in the first quarter
of the current century. It is therefore up to you
[Muslim holy fighters] to be patient — the
Hamas takes upon itself the liberation of all Palestinian
land from the sea to the river in the Rafah [in the
south] and until Rosh Hanikra [in the north].”

“If they go from Sheba’a, we
will not stop fighting them. Our goal is to liberate
the 1948 borders of Palestine...[Jews] can go back
to Germany or wherever they came from.”

— Hizballah spokesperson Hassan
EzzedinNew Yorker, October 14, 2002

“We are teaching the children
that suicide bombs make Israeli people frightened
and we are allowed to do it....We teach them that
after a person becomes a suicide bomber he reaches
the highest level of paradise.”

“The
Palestinian people are in a state of emergency
against the failure of the Camp David summit. If
the situation explodes, the Palestinian people
living in the areas controlled by the Palestinian
Authority are ready for the next fierce battle
against the Israeli occupation. ... The next Intifada
will be more violent than the first one especially
since the Palestinian people now possess weapons
allowing them to defend themselves in a confrontation
with the Israeli army. ... the Lebanese experience
of wiping out the Israeli occupation from southern
Lebanon gave the Palestinian people the needed
moral strength and added to their spirit of armed
struggle.”

— A “"senior security figure” in the Palestinian Authority,Kul Al-Arab, July 14, 2000

“The ruling to kill the Americans
and their allies
— civilians and military — is an individual duty
for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is
possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aksa Mosque
and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for
their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated
and unable to threaten any Muslim.”

— The fatwa (religious
edict) issued by Osama bin Laden in 1998

Radical
Islam

“First
of all this Palestinian land, and all the
Arabic nation, is all part of the same
area. In the past, there was no independent
Palestinian state; there was no independent
Jordanian state; and so on. There were
regions called Iraq or Egypt, but they
were all part of one country....Our main
goal is to establish a great Islamic state,
be it pan-Arabic or pan-Islamic.”

— Mahmoud A-Zahhar,
the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip,The Media
Line, September 22, 2005

“We
find more than once condemnation and denunciation
to the resistance operations and bombings
[suicide attacks], carried out by Hamas
and the Palestinian resistance branches.
There is no other choice but to use restraint
regarding the condemnation, the attaching
of the label of terror [to "resistance"],
and the assembling of conferences [for]
condemnation [of the attacks]. [This] so
that everyone will know, that we did this
only because our lord commanded so, “I
did it not of my own accord” and
so that people will know that the extermination
of Jews is good for the inhabitants of
the worlds on a land, to which Allah gave
his blessing for the sake of the inhabitants
of the worlds.”

“You
will be victorious" on the face of this
planet. You are the masters of the world
on the face of this planet. Yes, [the Koran
says that] "you will be victorious," but
only "if you are believers." Allah willing, "you
will be victorious," while America and
Israel will be annihilated, Allah willing.
I guarantee you that the power of belief
and faith is greater than the power of
America and Israel. They are cowards, as
is said in the Book of Allah: "You shall
find them the people most eager to protect
their lives." They are cowards, who are
eager for life, while we are eager for
death for the sake of Allah. That is why
America's nose was rubbed in the mud in
Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, and everywhere.”

“This is Islam, that
was ahead of its time with regards to human
rights in the treatment of prisoners, but
our people was afflicted by the cancerous
lump, that is the Jews, in the heart of the
Arab nation… Be certain that America
is on its way to disappear, America is wallowing
[in blood] today in Iraq and Afghanistan,
America is defeated and Israel is defeated,
and was defeated in Lebanon and Palestine… Make
us victorious over the infidel people… Allah,
take hold of the Jews and their allies, Allah,
take hold of the Americans and their allies… Allah,
count them and kill them to the last one
and don’t leave even one.”

“Palestinians
will fight Israel for generation upon generation
until victory, and will yet get to dance
at the Al-Aksa mosque in Jerusalem....If
Israel is not defeated in this generation,
it will be in the next generation.”

— Ismail Haniyeh,
former Hamas prime minister,
speaking at a rally in Gaza on August 16,Canadian Jewish News, August 17, 2007

“We
promise our Muslim brothers that we will
do the best we can to harm Jews in Israel
and the world over, with Allah's help and
according to his command.”

“The annihilation
of the Jews here in Palestine is one of the
most splendid blessings for Palestine. This
will be followed by a greater blessing, Allah
be praised, with the establishment of a Caliphate
that will rule the land and will be pleasing
to men and God.” — Palestinian
cleric Muhsen Abu 'Ita, Al-Aqsa TV, MEMRI,
July 13, 2008.”

— Palestinian cleric Muhsen
Abu 'Ita
Al-Aqsa TV,
July 13, 2008

“Oh young men, what will you say to the Jordanian government? Expel the Jewish ambassador from Amman. Amman is pure, and the Jewish ambassador must not defile its soil. Recall the Jordanian ambassador from Palestine. Only mujahideen should be in Palestine - not ambassadors, not ministers, or any representative of this nation. Do not recognize the ambassador of this nation in Palestine. Palestine is the land of Jihad, of sacrifice, and of preparation. We say to this government: Stop normalization with the Jews. Stop all imports and exports with the Jews. Our markets are full of Jewish vegetables and Jewish fruits. Traders who bring these fruits and vegetables are traitors, collaborators. Tell them this. Make them hear our voice. The position of the religious scholars is that anyone who trades with the Jews is a traitor and collaborator.”

“You don't
treat the Jews as enemies only because they
are human beings who eat and drink. No! We
treat them as enemies because they are the
enemies of Allah and the prophets, they murdered
the prophets, distorted the prophecy, they
are traitors and deceivers - therefore we
treat them as enemies....Oh Allah, inflict
as many losses as possible on the Jews, kill
them one by one and don’t leave even
one.”

Walid
Al-RashudiHamas TV, January 8, 2009

“The Jews are our enemies. Allah will annihilate them at our hands. This is something we know for certain.”